Allison Taylor

Networking gear maker Juniper Networks Inc. on Monday announced a US$4-billion agreement to acquire NetScreen Technologies Inc., a network security company.

There is an ever-growing need in Ontario to integrate technology in all areas of health care delivery, according to a group of Canadian health care experts.

It may be too early to sound the outsourcing alarm bells. Experts seem to agree that as long as developers continue to push their skills to the limits, there will be a future for programmers in North America.

The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Forum, an industry organization formed to create and promote VoiceXML, announced on Tuesday that the 2.0 specification has been granted Proposed Recommendation status by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

A new merger between an Ottawa-based user group and a national technology trade association is being described by one industry analyst as a way to bring the user community together with vendors in a common forum.

Computer Associates Inc. unveiled a new Web services management platform on Monday, marking the Islandia, N.Y.-based company's first offering in the Web services space.

Web services management software company, Infravio Inc., announced on Tuesday that it has ported its Ensemble Web Services Management Suite to the Hewlett-Packard's NonStop Platform, allowing for easier application integration for companies that use HP NonStop's.

Ottawa-based GridWay Computing Corp. recently launched a utility-based service in an effort to provide silicon design companies with the extra computing power they might require during simulation testing and verification phases of chip design.